quarto Hear it!

quarto definition

quarto (kwôrt′ō)

noun pl. quartos -·tos

  1. the page size of a book made up of sheets each of which is folded twice to form four leaves, or eight pages, about nine by twelve inches in size
  2. a book made of pages folded in this way

Etymology: < L (in) quarto < in, in + quarto, abl. of quartus, fourth: see quart

adjective

having four (quarto) leaves to the sheet

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Comments
Improve this definition.
Do you have more to add? Share your linguistic knowledge or observation.
/Register to save your comments.